Year: 2022
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Look what’s happening online today at TC Sessions: Climate – TechCrunch
Welcome to Online Day at TC Sessions: Climate! Opportunity knocks just as loud online as it does IRL, but this knock can be heard around the world. You’ll find everything happening today listed in the event agenda, but here’s a quick rundown of what’s in store. Pass Protocol: If you attended the live show in…
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SpaceX internal open letter seeks condemnation of Elon Musk’s tweets – TechCrunch
SpaceX employees have posted an open letter to the company’s internal communication system asking leadership at the company to implement a number of measures, with the stated aim of ensuring that SpaceX’s actual “systems and culture” live up “to its stated values,” The Verge’s Loren Grush reports. The letter specifically calls out Elon Musk’s behavior…
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Ferrari will produce its first-ever SUV later this year, and launch its first EV in 2025 – TechCrunch
Ferrari shared details on its plan to launch its first electric vehicle by 2025 as it aims to go carbon neutral by 2030. The battery-electric supercar will set the tone for Ferrari’s future EVs, CEO Benedetto Vigna said Thursday at the company’s Capital Markets Day from its headquarters in Maranello, Italy. The Italian luxury carmaker…
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The Many Possible Futures of Streaming Television
Angela Watercutter: Oh boy, I think streaming is … is it fair to say it’s fractured, if not totally broken? Like, I feel like it kind of grew too fast for its own good. All of a sudden Netflix took off, and everybody kind of saw a cash cow, and all the networks and studios…
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Why Watch Content on Your Phone When You Can Watch It on Your TV?
Back when smartphones were still a new thing and HDTVs were a lot less smart–oh, about 10 years ago–putting what was on your phone’s screen onto a television screen typically involved an adapter dongle, a cable, and a ton of frustration. Today, improved wireless standards, smart TVs, streaming media apps, and devices like Roku boxes…
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Black Carbon From Rocket Launches Will Heat the Atmosphere
In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a pair of outspoken scientists reveal how warp drives—the show’s ubiquitous propulsion system used to get travelers around space—can be incredibly environmentally destructive. From then on, the characters take care to limit the damage of their spaceflights. Could a similar scenario now play out in the…
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Cometeer No-Machine-Necessary Coffee Pods Review: High-Quality Brew
I hate coffee pods. Keurig and its ilk have never given me anything but a shockingly mediocre cup of coffee. To make matters worse, entombing those beans in single-use plastic is hard on the environment. So when Cometeer showed up in my inbox, I was more than a little skeptical. Here was a company that…
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Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
police forces around the world have increasingly used hacking tools to identify and track protesters, expose political dissidents’ secrets, and turn activists’ computers and phones into inescapable eavesdropping bugs. Now, new clues in a case in India connect law enforcement to a hacking campaign that used those tools to go an appalling step further: planting…
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The Franchise Frenzy Leaves Nothing to the Imagination
Deep in the heart of Middle-earth there is a wood—or maybe a cave or a hut—and in that wood (or cave or hut) a story takes place, centuries before the events of The Lord of the Rings. What’s it about? Who knows! It’s somewhere in the appendices of the LOTR books. And even though some…